{"title": "The Flood Has Not Ended – Floating Words and 21st Century Displacement", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zurich James Joyce Foundation", "address": "Augustinergasse 9, 8001 Zurich", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/migration", "literature"], "description": "A talk in the series \"Poetographies: Literary Dialogues at the Zurich James Joyce Foundation\" with Wagdy El Komy, an author born in Egypt who lives in exile in Switzerland. It centres on two short stories he recently published with Weiter Schreiben Schweiz, the platform for exiled authors in Switzerland, which take the myth of Noah's Ark and re-place it in the 21st-century context of Western Europe's asylum policies. Through this rewriting, El Komy raises questions about solidarity, ethics and belonging that hold a critical mirror to xenophobic discourses in Western Europe, including Switzerland. The evening also asks about the value of literature and storytelling as a way of resisting such discourses.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/the-flood-has-not-ended-floating-words-and-21st-century-disp-69462/", "official_url": "https://joycefoundation.ch/02-11-2026-the-flood-has-not-ended-floating-words-in-the-21st-century/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/543333fe365889a0a4c3106ae348f4d8d4c4de58f725b9e3d8b60877e9db0414-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zurich James Joyce Foundation", "address": "Augustinergasse 9, 8001 Zurich", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Die Flut ist nicht vorbei", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zurich James Joyce Foundation", "address": "Augustinergasse 9, 8001 Zurich", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/migration/refugees", "literature/fiction"], "description": "An English-language reading and discussion with Wagdy El Komy, an exiled writer originally from Egypt. Together with Ana Sobral and Martin Mühlheim, two short stories recently published on the platform Weiter Schreiben Schweiz will be discussed. El Komy's stories engage with the myth of Noah's Ark in relation to Western European asylum policy, raising questions of solidarity, ethics and belonging. The event is part of the series „Poetographien: Literarische Dialoge Zurich James Joyce Foundation\".", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/die-flut-ist-nicht-vorbei-73749/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/543333fe365889a0a4c3106ae348f4d8d4c4de58f725b9e3d8b60877e9db0414-2000.webp"}, {"title": "KUNST ALS EXIL", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T15:00:00+01:00", "place": "Schiffbau", "address": "8005 Zürich", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/migration", "literature"], "description": "KUNST ALS EXIL is a reading and conversation series celebrating the 100th anniversary of Schauspielhaus Zürich. The edition on 18 October presents Nr. 2: HEIMAT/HOME 2.0, a polyphonic scenic reading drawn from the anniversary issue «heimat/home 2.0» of the magazine zwischentext. It is a collaboration of the zwischentext-kollektiv with the Zürcher Institut für Interreligiösen Dialog ZIID and Schauspielhaus Zürich. The reading combines personal texts, collective writing and performative elements to explore how home can be rethought when belonging is constantly negotiated.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/kunst-als-exil-787/", "official_url": "https://www.schauspielhaus.ch/de/spielplan/38402/kunst-als-exil", "image": ""}, {"title": "Texte ohne Grenzen – نصوص بلا حدود", "start": "2026-11-04T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kulturmarkt", "address": "Aemtlerstrasse 23", "price": "CHF 25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "40.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.kulturmarkt.ch/veranstaltungen/texte-ohne-grenzen-der-rauch-unserer-stimmen/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/migration/exile", "literature/reading"], "description": "\"Texte ohne Grenzen – نصوص بلا حدود\" is an Arabic-German evening of readings and conversation titled \"Der Rauch unserer Stimmen\". Behind it are the Palestinian poet Mona Al Assi and the Syrian prose writer Zaher Al Jamous, who have both lived in Switzerland for more than ten years and write in Arabic. Their texts are shaped by memories of their homeland and the inner tornness of exile, mapping spaces between loss and the present and giving their experiences a personal story and language. The evening is musically accompanied by Christian Moser on the oud.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/texte-ohne-grenzen-6049/", "official_url": "https://www.kulturmarkt.ch/veranstaltungen/texte-ohne-grenzen-der-rauch-unserer-stimmen/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a2497f20d8610562395be35f3ef726f8391706b4d4e121e3db5d76966d4a66c6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "ECHO – Vernissage und Lesung mit Medaur Sadrija", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Labor5 Bar", "address": "Schiffbaustrasse 3, 8005 Zürich", "price": "CHF 25.00", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.labor5.ch/events/echo-vernissage-und-lesung-mit-medaur-sadrija", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "art"], "description": "At the vernissage for «ECHO» at Labor5 Bar, Medaur Sadrija reads from his first poetry book. The collection deals with origins and uprootedness, with his parents' migration and with life between a lost homeland and a new present. His poems move through the spaces of memory, telling of painful memories and longing, but also of warmth and beauty. Together with the author, guests immerse themselves in a reading about origins, family, memory and the life in between.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/echo-vernissage-und-lesung-mit-medaur-sadrija-6190/", "official_url": "https://www.labor5.ch/events/ECHO-Vernissage-und-Lesung-mit-Medaur-Sadrija05-11-2026-1830525", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b8820f3e850b2f292b45382c432c5b622c26480b917d91dd0642cd476f3c4fb8-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Broken Mirrors \"Sinalcol\" by Elias Khoury", "start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T20:30:00+01:00", "place": "mille et deux feuilles", "address": "Glasmalergasse 6, 8004", "price": "Kollekte", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/novel"], "description": "A reading from the novel Broken Mirrors \"Sinalcol\" by the Lebanese writer Elias Khoury. Seba Kourani and Hamza Hamadeh, theatre practitioners from Beirut staying in Zürich with the Freies Musiktheater, read excerpts. Moving between Beirut and exile, the novel follows lives shaped by the Lebanese Civil War, tracing the fragile ties between memory, identity, love, and belonging. The reading is in English and Arabic, collection.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/broken-mirrors-sinalcol-by-elias-khoury-29054/", "official_url": "https://www.1002f.ch/events/broken-mirrors-sinalcol-by-elias-khoury", "image": ""}, {"title": "Writer in Prison: Yousri Alghoul", "start": "2026-11-10T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Zürich", "address": "Limmatquai 62, 8001 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "society/human-rights"], "description": "A conversation evening with the Palestinian writer Yousri Alghoul dedicated to authors imprisoned because of their work. On the occasion of the Writers in Prison Day, the German-Swiss PEN Centre turns its attention to writers whose freedom is at risk. Alghoul, who grew up in the Al-Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, has been writing for almost two decades about everyday life under occupation – about hope and hopelessness, resilience and humanity. In conversation with Demian Cornu, interpreted by Zainab Lüscher, he speaks about writing in war and about the people in prisons and those who wait for them.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/writer-in-prison-yousri-alghoul-644/", "official_url": "https://literaturhaus.ch/veranstaltungen/writer-in-prison-yousri-alghoul/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/342750b01c1a36bba6dc2f796dbb164e80a24c5c84c7d864b820bedd564df411-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Widerstand im Autoritarismus Podium: Strategien und Solidarität in Zeiten des Demokratieabbaus", "start": "2026-11-02T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Karl der Grosse", "address": "Kirchgasse 14, 8001 Zürich", "price": "Eintritt frei, mit Anmeldung", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://eventfrog.ch/de/p/fuehrungen-vortraege/diskussion-debatte/widerstand-im-autoritarismus-zuerich-7518693054787635564.html", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/civil-society"], "description": "A panel discussion on forms of civil society resistance against authoritarian developments. It is organised by Amnesty International Switzerland as part of the Amnesty Letter Marathon. The guests are Fida Hammami, the journalist and activist Lukas Žalalis and the journalist Daniel Binswanger; the discussion is moderated by Natalie Wenger of Amnesty International Switzerland. It covers the causes of democratic backsliding, strategies of resistance and the importance of networks and international solidarity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/widerstand-im-autoritarismus-podium-strategien-und-solidarit-31158/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}